Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2010

Within each episode, Melissa Francis, Simon Hobbs, and a group of distinguished guests discuss what it takes to be a visionary leader; guiding their companies to success within the rapidly changing global marketplace.

Transportation 50

Transportation Execution Simon Newsletter 50

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Within each episode, Melissa Francis, Simon Hobbs, and a group of distinguished guests discuss what it takes to be a visionary leader; guiding their companies to success within the rapidly changing global marketplace.

Retail 50

Retail Execution Simon Leadership 50

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

Improving public services Finally, a short update on another area we are currently working in: CMI is partnering with the Social Market Foundation to explore how to get improved results from the UK’s public services. We’ve got an exclusive interview with Simon here ! Catch up here.

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Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

Simon Tyler ( Speaker, Coach, & Author ) Authenticity - knowing who you are, what is important to you, what you stand for and being comfortable in all of that. Leaders Eat Last - Simon Sinek Any other leadership advice you recommend for leading well? Stay human. Everyone has a back story, everyone is fallible and fragile.

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Leadership Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Open-book 102

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Blame the market, other departments or poor IT-systems for the fact that you are not taking brave, independent action. StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 57 – An Interview with Robert Simons, author of Seven Strategy Questions. Take lots of time to promote yourself and actively campaign for a better job.

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Strategy Strategic Planning Porter Simon 58

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Processes, trends, fads, perceived stresses and “the system” force adults to make compromises in order to proceed. I emceed concerts with stars like Elvis Presley, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Little Richard, Kenny Rogers, The Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, Simon & Garfunkel, Nelson Riddle, Dionne Warwick and Andre Previn.

Strategic Planning 50

Strategic Planning Planning Ethics Learning-by-Doing 50

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Lead with We : The Business Revolution That Will Save Our Future by Simon Mainwaring. Lead With We not only examines why we must all conduct business differently in order to grow in today’s market, but provides the how—concrete steps any reader, wherever they find themselves in the business hierarchy, can take toward success.

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Books Emotional Intelligence Leadership Self-aware 322

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 14, 2018

One of the best bolt-on tools at the core level is Simon Sinek’s Start with Why. competitive advantage, value proposition, and market position) and drill down to function-level strategy (e.g., marketing, sales, product development, and innovation). Sinek goes deep into defining a purpose. A big part of survival is strategy.

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CRM Tools Competitive Advantage Simon 172

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

I’ve developed this framework based on the experiences that my collaborators and I have had implementing prediction systems over the last 25 years in domains like finance, healthcare, education, and sports. Predictability refers to how much better than random we should expect today’s best predictive systems to perform.

Uncertainty 9

Uncertainty Simon Cost Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

In the 1900s, French mathematician-economist Leon Walras envisioned prices in a market economy being set by an auctioneer (since known as the “Walrasian auctioneer”) conducting continuous auctions for all kinds of commodities. Economists and market design. But that would be a mistake. Economists and finance.

Strategy 12

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Over the major innovation cycles, the capitalist system has been resilient enough to absorb the effects of the crashes caused by pure speculation and turn them to its advantage. There are lessons here for giant corporations and the stock markets they trade on. laura schneider FOR HBR.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Many newly appointed managers, as they assume unfamiliar roles, cling to a belief system that emphasizes “hard skills” and a “nose to the grindstone” mentality. Some managers struggle to adapt their belief system, in part because they fear they will lose their edge in their area of technical expertise.

Belief Systems 8

Belief Systems Executive Coaching Stress Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

He often pointed to Simon Bolivar, Venezuela's early visionary and leader (1783-1830), as the model for his political philosophy: Latin America must achieve a united independence from foreign powers. For all these reasons, change towards free markets and private property and open dissent will not come quickly or easily in Venezuela.

Politics 8

Politics Price Simon Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

I see Amazon’s price strategy with Whole Foods, fueled by constant testing and experimentation, to evolve in three steps: changing price perception, growing the market for healthy foods, and then applying insights to other offline retail sectors and services. Growing the market for healthy foods. Changing price perception.

Price 8

Price Retail Competitive Advantage Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

As the second week of May began, Dimon realized, "The last thing I told the market — that it was a tempest in a teapot — was dead wrong," the Journal reports. housing market could collapse and trigger a global financial crisis. Finally, on April 30, Dimon demanded to see the specific trading positions.

Banking 9

Banking Kahneman Document Simon 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

What can firms do better than markets? This work is coordinated by a single firm, Amazon, but it often involves third parties (makers of dog food, delivery companies) whose systems interact seamlessly with Amazon’s. And what are the distinctive qualities of firms in a world of smart contracts and AI? Insight Center. Adopting AI.

Company 10

Company Long-term Short-term Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2012

I've just seen Simon, a client who has been looking for a job for 6 months. Like many people on the market, he started out optimistically but has given up — not officially, mind you, but he's suddenly taken an urgent interest in redecorating his house. Why do some job hunters give up when they are just in sight of their goals?

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Simon Advice Learning-by-Doing Letter 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The companies that occupy the limelight are typically diversified giants that achieve growth through constant expansion into new markets and the introduction of additional product lines (just think P&G, GE, and Microsoft). Quick test: name one company that does one thing and does it very well.

Succession 8

Succession Simon Airlines Business Model 8

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Bounded rationality The notion of bounded rationality, initially introduced by Nobel laureate Herbert Simon, highlights the inherent limitations individuals face when endeavoring to make rational choices, stemming from their constrained access to certain knowledge or their capacity to comprehend that information.

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Decentralization Long-term Belief Systems Simon 94

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

But this is just the beginning — industry analysts predict the market to double in less than a decade. Currently, Geologists like Jan Grygar are using drones to take high-definition photographs, while Simon Jardine and his business, Eye In The Sky, are using drones to sell aerial photography.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Venture Funding Industry Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Your company might not be as extreme as Jack Welch’s GE, which famously relied on forced rankings to cull weaker managers (a system still in use by more than half of Fortune 500 firms as of 2012), but chances are your company has given you a number that puts you in a specific spot on the employee continuum. So now the U.S.

Performance Review 10

Performance Review Review Quinn Health Care 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

For instance, in October 2010, Biocon struck a $350-million marketing alliance with Pfizer, the world's largest drug maker, to commercialize four of Biocon's insulin biosimilar products in non-overlapping markets globally. Inventors are engineers, scientists, or entrepreneurs who come up with an original idea. Transformers. Financiers.

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Shaw Globalization Innovation Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Moreover, Twitter is used by virtually all big Western companies either for marketing or to respond to customers—and sometimes both. Methodology The Lady Geek “Empathy Quotient” is inspired by Simon Baron Cohen’s “Empathizer” and ‘”Systemizer” model.

Company 8

Company Airlines Brand Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

In malleable environments, such as in newly created or disrupted markets, they will need to envision and realize new possibilities. For example, the presence or absence of a trade deal or an interest rate cut can potentially have a bigger impact than reducing cost or increasing marketing. Invest in Resilience. ” Embeddedness.

Strategy 10

Strategy Uncertainty Long-term Politics 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

Three decades of ideologically driven pro-market change, combined with an ever-greater ability of the rich to influence the political process, has created a stranglehold for the top 1% on the political agenda. Which leaves us with economic policy. But there the news is rather bleak. The causes of inequality in China are different.

Politics 8

Politics Short-term Policies Education 8